Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Children's Books I Love

Yesterday's post title, In Which My Husband Has A Wish, is an homage to some of my favorite children's books. Books, quite frankly, that almost nobody seems to know about. It might be because they're Norwegian (I believe). I was introduced by my first-generation Norwegian-Australian third-grade teacher. I own very ratty copies purchased many, many years ago at the Barnes and Noble Annex for one dollar each. I know this because they both have their price stickers still on them. The list price was a buck and a quarter. I got a bargain.

What are these wonderful books? I'll let this post be a Thanksgiving treasure hunt. It's about time I had a truly interactive blog post. My blog title was in the format of the chapter titles/headings. My hint for the treasure hunt is this: "Chapter IV: In which owing to the Hattifatteners' night attack the Snork Maiden loses her hair, and in which the most remarkable discovery is made on Lonely Island."

Do you know these books from your childhood and recognize the description? Or are you just good at Googling? Either way, try to Name That Book/Those Books in the comments!

3 comments:

Sister said...

SPOILER ALERT (i think, anyway)

good thing you mentioned that you have copies, since it would be a tempting bir.. i mean, christmas gift if you didn't.

is it part of the finn family moomintroll series? i saw one or another of them recently (as in the past decade, not really recently) in some completely unexpected place that made it seem as if the whole world knew the books existed. very strange.

Angela said...

Yes, you're quite right! Finn Family Moomintroll, Comet in Moominland - those are the books!

Cynthia J. Coleman said...

Never heard of the Moom books before.